Would you like to know how to get your children to willingly cooperate? Would you like to eliminate many of your daily battles and end the yelling, nagging, and pleading? Would you like to handle discipline issues with knowledge and authority? During this process, would you like to learn how to boost your children's self-esteem, feel better about yourself as a person, and even improve your marriage?

This book is filled with real ideas for real families - practical, purposeful things you can do to improve family life. With the tools and skills presented in Kid Cooperation you can achieve the goal of raising happy, confident, self-disciplined children, and enjoy the process!

"Here is a book we have long been waiting for, and one that we heartily welcome. I envy any parent who has the privilege of reading it and learning from it." (Louise Bates Ames, Ph.D., Gesell Institute of Human Development).

"Kid Cooperation gives you the tools you need, not only to encourage compliance, but to create a close, loving, and respectful relationship between you and your child." (William Sears, M.D. Co-Author of The Baby Book and The Discipline Book).

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Parenting educator Elizabeth Pantley is president of Better Beginnings, Inc., a family resource and education company. Elizabeth frequently speaks to parents at schools, hospitals, and parent groups around the world. She is a regular radio show guest and frequently quoted as a parenting expert in newspapers and magazines world-wide and on hundreds of parent-directed Web sites. She publishes a newsletter which is distributed in schools, doctor's offices and parent programs everywhere.

Elizabeth and her husband, Robert are the parents of four children. For more information, excerpts, parenting articles, and contests visit the author's website at http://www.pantley.com/elizabeth

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"Kid Cooperation gives you the tools you need, not only to encourage compliance, but to create a close, loving, and respectful relationship between you and your child." --From the foreword by William Sears, M.D., co-author of The Baby Book and The Discipline Book

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If you're reading this review, you probably want a book that will transform the way you deal with your children, put you back in control before you start yelling and enable you to parent calmly and effectively. Buy this book.Rather than discussing problems in a theoretical or psychoanalytical way, the author gives you a wide range of options for dealing with everyday situations. You will wince as you read her accounts of conversations between parents and children and recognise yourself in them. However, she then gives you a selection of coping strategies that are simple to understand but very effective.This book has enhanced my time with my boys (2&5) immeasurably. I have been astounded by how well the techniques work and how quick it was to pick them up. Last weekend, a friend marvelled at how 'calm and serene' I was as I got a group of running, screaming 4-6 year-olds (only 1 of them mine!) to behave and do as they were told instead. She has now borrowed the book.

As a elementary school teacher of 9 years, I have read countless books on discipline and child rearing. This book took me by complete surprise. Some of the scenarios in the book made me feel like they had been listening to me and my children. The realism and practicality of the book were very helpful. I have been talking about this book since I got it. All the books I've read in the past, always give the problem, and then, the solution is so unbelievably out of touch or so vague I end up just as frustrated as when I originally consulted the book. This book is just the contrary to that. It is really outstanding. I plan to raffle it off at my next back to school night.

I found this book very positive and helpful, much like "How to Talk so your Kids will Listen and listen so Kids will Talk". It teaches a balanced parenting approach, which is neither permissive/democratic or autocratic. The author shows parents how to take charge and provide the consistant structure that children need with confidence. Countless examples are used throughout the book.Many different skills are explained, teaching parents the difference between discipline and punishment. Listed to are the many disadvantages and counter productive negative effects of spanking.There is good advice for nurturing sibling relationships, understanding and coping with anger, and how important it is for parents to look after themselves as well. The last part of the book is devoted to providing ideas for dealing with all the common discipline situations such as homework, bedtime, mornings, interrupting, meal times, tantrums etc..Another book which would make a good companion to this one is "Setting Limits" by Robert J MacKenzie.I have recently read Elizabeth Pantley's book on sleep, "The No-Cry Sleep Solution" which is also a wonderful book.

Children are the most valuable things that we have in the life. All people want their children to be good in every aspect. We, parents, are in the position to prepare them to life. Children are like dough, ready to give form. Every behaviour of us leaves a trace on these doughs. When the dough is dried, we are surprized with the result."If you are an accountant, and there is a deficit in the daily balance, you stay at night and find the reason. If you are a cook, and burn the cake, you'll make another one, but you do not have that chance on your children. You can not compansate your mistake about your children" says Elizabeth Pantley, while trying to emphasize the importance of the subject.We love our children, but this love, by itself, does not teach us the right behaviours to our children. In Kid Cooperation, Elizabeth Pantley is sharing her experiences with the readers, as a professional expert on family issues and as the mother of three children. The book consists of 9 chapters some of which are: What are your parental methods?, Cooperation, Punishment and Discipline, How to improve self confidence of your child? and How to improve fraternal relations?Every chapter is divided into subsections and each heading is explained together with lived examples. At the end of each chapter there is a summary table containing the headings of the chapter.There are very original thoughts in the book. For example in the 'how to improve fraternal relations?' chapter a usual mistake is pointed out. She gives the example of a family who buys birthday presents to all three of their children at every birthday.Read more ›